Unfortunately for McSorley, despite playing 17 seasons in the NHL, many hockey fans mainly remember him for a cheapshot to the head of then-Vancouver Canuck Donald Brashear in February, 2000. The incident ended in a conviction for assault with a weapon in a B.C. court, and effectively ended McSorley's hockey career.

As ugly as it was, I'm of the same mind as Frank Albin, the Sharks director of broadcasting, who says 'we hope that everyone can move on.'

For every Canucks fan who remembers watching in horror as the incident unfolded six years ago, I imagine that won't be easy.

5 Comments:

1. Lots of time has passed2. We had the Bertuzzi incident, which was just as worse and even more so blown up by the media. The McSoreloser incident pales in comparison3. Brashear is a grade-A asshole.4. Canucks fans don't listen to SJ Sharks broadcasts.

I'll back up the other commenters by stating that I was very impressed with McSorley's post-game work. Unlike the other bozos on the FSW post-game shows, McSorley knew hockey and was great at picking up the nuances of each individual contest. And he was never afraid to be critical of the locals, either Kings or Ducks. God knows there was a lot to be critical of regarding the Kings last year.

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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a radio and TV analyst with TSN and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.

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